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You've got the Holloway Road right off it. It's nothing like around the Villa.

[kippaxvilla2]

I don’t the locals would mind us leaving.  See a minute into this.

https://youtu.be/i7nVYXvyPgw?si=3Tv7mWme7ejpnzfG

[PeterWithesShin]

It's also not far from Seven Sisters Road which isn't exactly great at night. Neither is around the Spurs ground. It's not like we're the only club that isn't in an amazing area.

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Tottenham is in a dire area. But it's in that there London, which helps with the never ending supply of Korean supporters there for Son.

[dave.woodhall]

Those streets are a long way from Aston - the gentrification of Islington started well before Arsenal moved.

[The Edge]

Because I'd like a new North Stand. But I'd like the best stadium in the country even more. I made the comment with reference to the notion that it is some how beyond the wit of man to pick somewhere adequate to develop in the city centre, like Risso said, its not about scrounging after car parks.

What you value is of no tangible worth. What I value is fresh memories of success. I strongly believe I'll make plenty in Athens in May and want to do that forever. A new stadium gives us the opportunity to compete at the very top. Take a look at the table, the squad, the manager and imagine what an extra £100m/150m income would have let us do this season. Tomorrow would have a whole other goal for us. That's what I want.

Staying in some deprived inner city suburb, with subpar facilities, capped by transport issues, location for the stadia use the rest of the year...just God no. And for what? Tradition? How about a tradition of winning. Let's try that.

Aston may be deprived now but hasnt always been that way. It's run down now because of a total lack of investment stretching back years.With some imagination and investment by local authorities and the club There's no reason why the area can't be smartened up and bought to life. As others have said it happens all the time in London. I believe we can find a solution to our lack of expansion room with some clever restructuring either side of the ground. Just relocating to a brand new site on some out of town land guarantees nothing. Just ask the likes of Sunderland and Southampton to name just two. I know you favour a city centre site but I just don't see it happening. There's nowhere suitable. I don't think I'm being over sentimental about our historical home I actually think a total overhaul of the stadium and surrounding areas offers us the best opportunity all things considered. We are a Birmingham club no matter what people say and I'm proud of our postcode.

[Beard82]

We can’t organise a new badge - of the field I think there is a lot of work we need to get done before we’re in a position to not fuck up a new stadium

[Risso]

When wasn't Aston deprived? It has been for as long as I've been going.

[pauliewalnuts]

Those streets are a long way from Aston - the gentrification of Islington started well before Arsenal moved.

I can’t believe anyone thinks Islington has been anything like Aston for at least half a century and probably more. If indeed it ever was.

[pauliewalnuts]

With some imagination and investment by local authorities and the club There's no reason why the area can't be smartened up and bought to life. As others have said it happens all the time in London.

You can not compare anywhere like Aston with London, though. There isn't immense amounts of iffy foreign money washing around in Birmingham, or any other provincial city for a start. That's why it happens in London.

Aston isn't top of anyone's list for investment, and it never will be.

[edgysatsuma89]

I would like a new stadium that isn't of the bowl variety. I understand that economically that design makes sense, so it's likely to happen, but it would be nice to do something a little different. Are there any decent sized stadiums in the last couple of decades, anywhere, that haven't been built that way? I have no idea.

[FatSam]

For what its worth, Cris Harte above has proposed something workable and amitious

Well, it was certainly ambitious.

[tomd2103]

I don’t the locals would mind us leaving.  See a minute into this.

https://youtu.be/i7nVYXvyPgw?si=3Tv7mWme7ejpnzfG

That was nearly 50 years ago!

[tomd2103]

For what its worth, Cris Harte above has proposed something workable and amitious

Well, it was certainly ambitious.

It also involved demolishing nearly all the houses in the area behind Witton Lane. 

[FatSam]

For what its worth, Cris Harte above has proposed something workable and amitious

Well, it was certainly ambitious.

It also involved demolishing nearly all the houses in the area behind Witton Lane.

Yes, ambitious, but not remotely workable.